The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
~ Annie Dillard
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
